Tag: California

• The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

  

  With their perfumed fragrance and lovely colors, pitcher plants beckon, inviting insects to partake of what promises to be the most delicious nectar nestled in the depths of their beguiling wide open red and green lined mouth. But the slope is slippery and tiny plant tentacles pull the insect down into dark depths making escape…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 8, 2022

  #books, Gardening

  Bladderwort, California, California Carnivores, Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Little Shop of Horrors, Peter D'Amato, Pitcher plants, Sebastopol, The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants, Venus flytraps

• Wine Country Table

  

  Taking us on a road trip that meanders from northern to southern California, James Beard award winner Janet Fletcher shows us how diverse the state’s growers and growing regions are in her latest book, The Wine Country Table: With Recipes that Celebrate California’s Sustainable Harvest. Accompanied by lush photographs by Robert Holmes and Sara Remington,…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 18, 2019

  Cookbooks, Food, Rizzoli, Uncategorized, Wine

  California, Cookbooks, Janet Fletcher, Wine